"40% of fourth graders can't read. Kids are asking their teachers why they need to learn to read when AI can do it for them. Social media has destroyed their attention spans and now teachers aren't teaching, instead they're managing withdrawal symptoms."
Why are fourth graders on social media and using AI already? My fourth grade kid has no social media presence and definitely isn't familiar with AI tools. This sounds like a parent problem.
Not all parents on this planet are investing in their offspring. Some parents also miss the required knowledge. Getting the required knowledge could be a society problem.
A lot of people want to have kids but don't want to be parents. There are a lot of kids who spend hours on tablets watching TikTok and so on before they even reached first grade.
It needs generational time, the current hooked generation can't give up (not that it's their fault since the largest tech bros build a very additive product), but there's hope for the next generation.
Unless something worse comes along, like vaping and we undo all the anti smoking progress of the last two generations.
These kids will grow up and sadly/likely be a burden on the 60% who can read. Or the even smaller subset who can read, write, count, and be productively employed.
Per stats in the video results are roughly the same as in 1992, with peak roughly at 2019. I do not know why is 1992 baseline, but for some reason it is.
OK, I found it, peak was 2020. Just in case someone will (again) argue this means we have to go back to pedagogy of 1970.
From the summary of video:
"40% of fourth graders can't read. Kids are asking their teachers why they need to learn to read when AI can do it for them. Social media has destroyed their attention spans and now teachers aren't teaching, instead they're managing withdrawal symptoms."
Why are fourth graders on social media and using AI already? My fourth grade kid has no social media presence and definitely isn't familiar with AI tools. This sounds like a parent problem.
Not all parents on this planet are investing in their offspring. Some parents also miss the required knowledge. Getting the required knowledge could be a society problem.
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A lot of people want to have kids but don't want to be parents. There are a lot of kids who spend hours on tablets watching TikTok and so on before they even reached first grade.
The very last clip in the video says that it is kids in affluent families taking that direction.
Australia's social media ban for young teenagers is probably a good thing but time will tell.
While, as a parent, i don't like social media in its current form and the effect it has on ALL people, one must not forget that the 'fight' between old and young people has been going for at least 2500 years now. ( https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-a... ). I also recommend watching the movie 'The Boat That Rocked' ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131729/ )
It needs generational time, the current hooked generation can't give up (not that it's their fault since the largest tech bros build a very additive product), but there's hope for the next generation.
Unless something worse comes along, like vaping and we undo all the anti smoking progress of the last two generations.
Why are you letting kids that can't read pass the grade?
While I appreciate the sentiment of the video, I can‘t get past the sensationalist rhetoric / framing of the problem.
„Skibidi Toilet is rotting brains!! Kids don‘t want cartoons!!“.
I suppose videos like this might get people to think about the problem who hadn‘t considered it before.
Don’t they still need to read what AI writes? Or did they skip to the TTS stage?
You can "talk" to AI, so I assume this is what they'd be referring to. No need to write prompts or read responses.
The 40% stat is not great, there's a better unpacking of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCT31BOLDM
This is 100% the fault of parents.
These kids will grow up and sadly/likely be a burden on the 60% who can read. Or the even smaller subset who can read, write, count, and be productively employed.
if it's 5% of parents it's the parents problem.
if it's 50% it's a society problem and can not be pushed to the individuals.
Per stats in the video results are roughly the same as in 1992, with peak roughly at 2019. I do not know why is 1992 baseline, but for some reason it is.
OK, I found it, peak was 2020. Just in case someone will (again) argue this means we have to go back to pedagogy of 1970.
(a joke) 100% of kids can't read then 60% learn